We are no longer doing anything with the steem blockchain. I have an RPC server I set to syncing 6 days ago and it's still far from catching up to 5th of august, let alone 8 days since then.
If you want to keep up to date and join the discussion about what we are doing, come join the Calibrae forum:
http://calibrae.freeforums.net/
This is just an interim measure to help coordinate and focus the social group towards the project. We have people hunting developers to help us make it happen as soon as possible.
Thanks for your interest, we hope we can build something that actually meets the needs of most people here, rather than strokes the egos of the small minority of in-group people. The design aims to produce a highly stable cryptocurrency, as well as a very resilient and trustworthy witness group, and there will be no ICO - development is entirely self funded though all donations are welcome.
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